Handy function that doen't exist

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Say you're shooting indoors in low light with Manual and someone says "please come over here and shoot this for me" you then have to say switch to Aperture with better light. But you want to go back to what you were shooting in M, so if there was a memory button like on a calculator for instance, it could then reset your shutter, aperture and iso without you trying to remember from memory or from a histogram from a previous photograph making the 3 adjustments.
Does anyone have any views if this would be useful, just a thought :thinking:
 
You can on the 5D mk2 - three custom options on the aperture / shutter / manual selector that you can register the camera's current settings to . and yes it is useful
 
dseered said:
Well mine do just as you say you want - Canon 1DMk3 + 40D, if you switch from manual to a creative mode and back again all manual settings are as I left them ?
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Same here on 40D and 7D, also holds the setting when swiching, and custom functions on both as well.
 
Nikon D3 has 4 custom menus each with 4 memory banks, so a total of 16 customisable setting....including the autofocus mode and follow focus preferences, ISO, quality recording (RAW or jpeg or both or TIFF - but nobodoy shoots TIFF), every single settable function on the camera can be saved in one of the custom settings - then you can call it what you like:
portrait
sports
indoors
still life

Most cameras have this kind of function within them - even compacts. The G10 has 2 custom memory banks.
 
50D does this automatically. When I'm out taking mainly macro I use manual 1/125, f22 with the ring flash. If I see something else I want to get a shot of I turn the flash off ans switch to AP which I leave set at f8.
 
The 450D automatically leaves settings as they were. So if you were shooting in M at (eg) 1/60 at F4.5 and then switch to TV and used 1/120 if you then switch back to M the 1/60 at F4.5 will already be there! However it doesn't have a memory bank, so you can switch to prefered settings... (=
 
I have some questions, why would you need to change to aperture prioroty? What do you think people did before auto modes where available?
 
Graham00 said:
Say you're shooting indoors in low light with Manual and someone says "please come over here and shoot this for me" you then have to say switch to Aperture with better light. But you want to go back to what you were shooting in M, so if there was a memory button like on a calculator for instance, it could then reset your shutter, aperture and iso without you trying to remember from memory or from a histogram from a previous photograph making the 3 adjustments.
Does anyone have any views if this would be useful, just a thought :thinking:
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I think you can safely say that this function does, in fact, exist! ;)
 
Ok there is the ABCD memory banks but i don't think they memorise PASM as they dont change in the top lcd display. or have i not delved deep enough before i've asked this question lol.
 
Ed Bray.....people used to be able to think for themselves.

They could even read maps to find out how to get to places.....fancy that! Incredible...and more, they could do mental arithmatic in £ S d as well - to add up all three columns at one go, carrying between them in their head.

It was called HAVING A BRAIN AND BEING ABLE TO USE IT.
 
Ed Bray.....people used to be able to think for themselves.

They could even read maps to find out how to get to places.....fancy that! Incredible...and more, they could do mental arithmatic in £ S d as well - to add up all three columns at one go, carrying between them in their head.

It was called HAVING A BRAIN AND BEING ABLE TO USE IT.:clap::thumbs:
 
I have a User setting on my dial when, next to M. its the same as manual but its on stadard presets that the user can set up.
 
Sorry, off topic, but it's a bugbear. Dave, Simon - time plods on and technology improves! It's a good thing.

To suggest that sat nav, spreadsheets and automatic settings on cameras has stopped people 'thinking for themselves' or 'HAVING A BRAIN AND BEING ABLE TO USE IT' is desperately unimaginitive.
 
love the custom functions on 7D, I'm always on M but if I'm in somewhere where there's mixed light i.e. woods or nature stuff, and something (rally car/wildlife/birds) are going to move in between certain points you need to change fast so i save the "in the sun" settings to C1 and the "shade" to C2, then on C3 it's setup for movie mode at 24p so 1/50 f/5.6 then adjust ISO/f stop :)

drew
 
See you can and you didnt even know it, There 3 slots for this on my 40D. Now I wish they would invent a cup holder in my canon 40D :D
 
Lensflare said:
Ed Bray.....people used to be able to think for themselves.

They could even read maps to find out how to get to places.....fancy that! Incredible...and more, they could do mental arithmatic in £ S d as well - to add up all three columns at one go, carrying between them in their head.

It was called HAVING A BRAIN AND BEING ABLE TO USE IT.
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I like to think that having the choice to not commit thinking power to what at times seem like trivial tasks such as map reading, basic arithmatic, manual exposure, etc leaves time to think about other things. At times I like the small challenges of using maps, working out basic arithmatic and definitely knowing better than the camera's auto metering functions, but it is nice to have the option.

But to keep on thread, as with others I'm sure my 40D remembers the manual settings from last time I was in the that mode.
 
EdBray said:
I have some questions, why would you need to change to aperture prioroty? What do you think people did before auto modes where available?
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Why would you need to communicate via an internet message board? What do you think people did before the internet was invented?
 
Getting back on topic, this seems to be a real and basic difference here between the Canon and Nikon user interfaces. Let's see if I've understood.

On a Canon, if you're in Manual at f/8, then you switch to Av and dial in f/4, when you go back to M you automatically go back to f/8. (I have two Canons and that's my experience.)

On a Nikon, if you're in Manual at f/8, then you switch to A and dial in f/4, when you go back to M you're still at f/4. (I have a Nikon but I only use it for testing lenses so I'm not really familiar - but this is how the OP says it works.)

If that's right, it's quite interesting. Which do people think is better?
 
PS Perhaps the thread title should be "Handy function that doesn't exist on even expensive Nikons but does exist on even cheap Canons ..." ;)
 
StewartR said:
PS Perhaps the thread title should be "Handy function that doesn't exist on even expensive Nikons but does exist on even cheap Canons ..." ;)
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or only not really that handy.......unless you're a Cannon user who can't remember 2 numbers or meter properly :D:D:D:D:D

its just different, not better, not worse and certainly not trying to start a fight ;)
 
I like Canon and I like Nikon.... but which is best?? There's only one way to find out.......
 
Maybe i'm getting confused, but I have used a D200, 300 and 700 and they have all "remembered" the settings i had before in manual, shutter priority and aperture priority with the exception of ISO. I just thought that was normal.

I'm confused as to why it would change at all?

Joanthan
 
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